[baryphonic]

You're absolutely right. I was waiting to see what the big misunderstanding was about RISC, and I actually rolled my eyes when I saw _horizontal microcode_ bolded. It's an implementation detail.

[kragen]

You seem to have read noobermin as saying the opposite of what I read them as saying, because to my eyes the conversation looks like this:

    <noobermin> X is Y
    <baryphonic> You're absolutely right.  X is totally not Y